/:16 Google Instant in Chrome is way more useful than it is on Google.com, but currently you can only enable it on Windows. Reader Rob Johnson offers a simple trick for enabling Instant on Chrome's latest dev release for Macs.

You can follow along with the process in the video above, or read the step-by-step below. If you want a preview of what Chrome Instant looks like, watch the video below.

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I am quickly becoming a Google Chrome convert for Mac and have it set as my default browser on all my systems and platforms. I like the cutting edge features of the dev builds, but I'm not ready to plunge into the Chromium nightly builds for a default browser.

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With the release of today's version 8 for the Dev builds, I was upset to see that Google Instant was not available for us Mac users. So I did some homework and found out how to enable it in the Dev build for Mac. Here's how:

1. Open Chrome and go to about:labs and enable at least one feature. (I enabled tabbed settings.) Then restart Chrome to apply the settings, then Quit Chrome.

2. Open /Users/YOUR-USERNAME/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences with your favorite text editor and find the section that says: